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Burst (2 stars)

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When a woman conquers her lover, she breaks him apart, piece by piece. A mysterious and unnerving new play set between colonised Sudan and London in the Roaring Twenties. Dynamic new theatre collective paper tiger combine storytelling, music and film to dramatise the dissolving boundaries between characters, places and times. Ages: 12+

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Burst

14 Aug 20102 stars

Atmospheric as a whole, but the script lacks polish

This tale of a Sudanese girl forced into an arranged marriage in the wake of colonial independence sadly fails to sparkle. The plot is unnecessarily and clunkingly intercut with a rushed account of her uncle’s fatal foray into 1920s London, which is…

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